Saturday, 7 March 2009

Esterification

Earlier something randomly came into my head involving esterification. I know we've only lightly touched on it but something got me thinking;

What determines the final smell? does the smell depend on the alcohol or carboxylic acid used? so can you have a different smell for every combination of acid and alcohol or does each particular acid/alcohol always give the same smell no matter what is added to it?

Steve

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i think its the carboxylic acid that determines the smell, not sure tho.
good times last night btw lol.